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Powerwave's Universal WiMAX Digital Radio Head Wins Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award

Posted on: Monday, 2 June 2008, 06:00 CDT

Powerwave Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PWAV), a global supplier of wireless solutions, announced today that its Universal WiMAX Digital Radio Head (DRH) has been named the winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award in the "WiMAX" category, by Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication.

The awards (www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/) recognize vendors from all over the world that are supporting essential and incremental technology advances through products and solutions that raise the bar for innovation in all areas of information technology.

"We are honored to be a recipient of a Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award," said Khurram Sheikh, chief product and development officer, Powerwave Technologies. "This recognition validates Powerwave's keen understanding of the wireless infrastructure market, built upon decades of experience in the design and deployment of industry-leading wireless coverage and capacity solutions."

Designed for operation with next-generation base stations, Powerwave's universal WiMAX DRH is an IEEE 802.16e transceiver, featuring Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) electrical or optical interfaces, which can be optimized for customer specific applications. The CPRI interface supports redundancy and carries bi-directional signal and control data, including alarms for antenna VSWR, LNA failure, digital input overdrive and erroneous configuration requests from the baseband unit.

Powerwave's universal WiMAX DRH offers up to 20 MHz of instantaneous, multi-carrier operation. The built-in flexibility of the WiMAX DRH allows key parameters, such as channel bandwidth, output power and Time Division Duplex (TDD) ratio to be changed in order to optimize coverage and capacity, without requiring firmware upgrades. Channel bandwidth configurations of 10 MHz and 10 MHz + 10 MHz are supported as standard, with 5 MHz + 5 MHz and 20 MHz available as firmware upgrades.

Featuring digital channel filtering, digital up and down conversion, RF up and down conversion, power amplification, low-noise receive amplification and TDD duplexing, the WiMAX digital radio head is a high-rejection sub-band RF filter, based on Powerwave's proprietary ceramic technology. It offers exceptional unwanted signal rejection with very low loss in the TX/RX paths (26 W per path transmit power, 2.5 dB typical receive noise figure), and enables the unit to meet stringent out of sub-band emissions requirements, including FCC 67+10log(P) without need for external filtering, which can increase insertion loss, power level errors and cost.

About Network Products Guide Awards

Network Products Guide published from Silicon Valley is a leading provider of products, technologies and vendor related research and analysis. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including product innovations, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com

About Powerwave Technologies

Powerwave Technologies is a global supplier of end-to-end solutions for wireless communications networks. Powerwave designs, manufactures and markets antennas, boosters, combiners, filters, repeaters, multi-carrier RF power amplifiers, tower-mounted amplifiers and advanced coverage solutions, all for use in cellular, PCS, 3G and WiMAX networks throughout the world. Corporate headquarters are located at 1801 E. St. Andrew Place, Santa Ana, Calif. 92705. Telephone (714) 466-1000. For more information on advanced wireless coverage and capacity solutions, call (888)-PWR-WAVE (797-9283) or visit www.powerwave.com. Powerwave, Powerwave Technologies and the Powerwave logo are registered trademarks of Powerwave Technologies, Inc.

Source: Business Wire

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